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1. War Communications Research Unit series, Library of Congress archives, 1941-1942

   3000 items. 28 containers. 11 linear feet. -- Library of Congress Archives, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Research unit for the study of wartime communications. Reports, surveys, press clippings, and publications documenting the unit's work under director Harold D. Lasswell, 1941-1942.

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   Some or all content stored offsite.

2. William Ralph Bennett papers, 1922-circa 1998

   43,400 items. 124 containers plus 21 oversize. 49.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Physicist, inventor, educator, and author. Topical files, notebooks, records of scientific experiments, research material, correspondence, scientific papers, lecture files, drafts of books with related background and research material, printed matter, and miscellaneous material documenting Bennett's development of the gas laser and other inventions, his academic and professional career, and his authorship of scientific papers and books.

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3. Written records in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Collection

   12,750 items. 45 boxes. 14.7 linear feet. 23 microfilm reels. -- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Records relate to the FSA-OWI photo files that came into the custody of the Library of Congress in 1944. Includes office files (correspondence, budgets, etc.), captions for negatives produced by Resettlement Administration, Farm Security Administration, and Office of War Information photographers, supplementary reference files, and scrapbooks of magazine and newspaper clippings reproducing RA, FSA, or OWI photographs or pertaining to activities of the agencies. Four of the 45 boxes are not microfilmed: LC reference correspondence, 1944-1946, and duplicates (boxes 31-33, oversize box 12)